Can I disable the hard delete of cards for a project?#815

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Shyam 1 post #2170

I would like to just use the soft delete option of setting the card status as deleted and prevent users from deleting them permanently.

Suzie Prince Administrator 189 post(s) #2171

Shyam

You can not disable the hard delete of cards but you can restrict who does it or create a transition to ‘soft delete’.

Only Mingle and project admins can delete cards. If there are specific users who you wish to prevent from deleting card ensure they are not Mingle or project admins.
You can create a property called ‘status’ with a value of ‘deprecated’, ‘deleted’, ‘archived’ or ‘trashed’ (or whatever makes the most sense to your team) and apply this to all card types. You can then create a transition that applies to all card types and sets the ‘status’ value to ‘deleted’. You can call this transition ‘soft delete’ or ‘archive’ etc… You can then use the filters in your views to restrict the view of ‘deleted’ cards but these cards will still be in the project if you need to refer to them later.

I hope that helps, Suzie